Mount Hope Fire District: Stay or go? Election is Tuesday

MOUNT HOPE — Voters in the Mount Hope Fire District will decide in a special election Tuesday whether to dissolve the district, which was created late last year by a resolution of the Town Board.

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MOUNT HOPE — Voters in the Mount Hope Fire District will decide in a special election Tuesday whether to dissolve the district, which was created late last year by a resolution of the Town Board.

Voting will take place from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Mount Hope Town Hall. The question on the ballot is: "Shall the Mount Hope Fire District be dissolved?" Residents will vote "yes" to dissolve the fire district or "no" to keep it.

By law, eligible residents who are in line to vote before 9 p.m. must be allowed to cast their ballots.

The town has a three-year contract with the Mount Hope Fire Company that will remain in effect until June 2016; the vote is solely on whether to dissolve the fire district, a separate taxing authority run by a board of five commissioners.

The referendum was forced by a petition spearheaded by residents in favor of dissolution.

The election will be run by the fire district and overseen by five election inspectors appointed by the board of fire commissioners. Votes will be cast on paper ballots and will be counted Tuesday night, according to the fire district.